Category - Observations

CareShield and Eldershield have been in the news of late and it appears people have been seriously confused by what it is. Online articles and their vague understanding of it have come up with inaccurate criticisms, these...

The answer to whether or not the High Speed Rail brings value to Singapore and/or Malaysia is animated in this question: Do both countries want a closer relationship with each other?
More unity and progress would do both nations...

Janil Puthuchery gave an interview today to the Straits Times about how complex it is to engage with the public, in the age of social media.
The vocal minority jumped at an opportunity to criticise the administration for a...

Parliament is sovereign.
And by sovereign, it means that it can do anything it pleases. It can intern whomever it wants. It can question anyone, raise any subject, pass any law whatsoever, howsoever. It is iudicium finitum, the...

To understand the dual roles of the doc, you have to understand the context of trade unions.
You see, it has often been misunderstood that trade unions, government and businessmen ought to be at eternal enmity with each other...

I think this vigilante behaviour is wrong. I won’t be very popular for saying it, but it is wrong.
Firstly, there is no crime. Nothing he did breaches any legislation. He did not hit, attack, raise public alarm or any...

If you haven’t lived through the Asian Financial Crisis and the British Black Wednesday, you would find it hard to imagine how just one man can cause the grief of billions of people.
The storyline is almost Hollywood style;...

Background: Historian Thum Ping Tjin and freelance journalist Kirsten Han sought to register a company (funded by foreign groups to organise activities such as workshops and “democracy classroom” sessions) have had their...

The Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods final day of hearings was rudely adjourned after a ruckus caused by activist Han Hui Hui. Her actions prompted her to be physically removed from the chambers in Parliament.
In...

“It’s easy to make money … but you have to have your man in power first”, said Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower at the heart of the Cambridge Analytica disaster.
In case you haven’t heard; Cambridge Analytica is the...